BrainHealth Launches Think Ahead Group With the Help of Laura Bush
Since Thursday has turned into the night-to-be-out-and-about, we called on our SweetCharity Chum Gillea Allison to check out the launch of Think Ahead Group by BrainHealth last night. Read and learn about an excellent group with a former First Lady guest:
The Think Ahead Group (TAG) celebrated its launch last night with an informative and enjoyable event at the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth. TAG is a group of young professionals who are committed to raising awareness about the center’s work through “engagement, education and enlistment of a new generation”. Board chairs Ginna McLanahan, Molly Soper, and Steven Owen gave moving speeches about personal experiences that led them to this cause. The group has passion, energy, and determination. Expect great things from them.
Laura Bush (pictured), who sadly lost her father to Alzheimer’s, spoke about her commitment to research and treatment in this field. She applauded the great work being done by Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, who founded the Center for BrainHealth in 1999, and Debbie Francis, its board chair and Laura’s longtime friend. Mrs. Bush presented Debbie with the 2008 BrainHealth Legacy Award for her role in increasing the center’s funds seven-fold.
The Center for BrainHealth currently has 50 funded, cutting-edge research projects, and guests got a taste of them after the program. Among the demonstrators was the great Dr. John Hart Jr., the center’s medical science director from John Hopkins University.
For more information about the Think Ahead Group, or to learn how to become a member, visit www.thinkaheadgroup.org or contact Maggie Flagg at Maggie.flagg@utdallas.edu.
Attaway, Gillea!
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The Center for BrainHealth, Dr. Chapman and her staff are doing some really remarkable work. Glad to see they are getting recognition for their role, and happy to see that TAG was able to secure Laura Bush’s involvement.